who influenced you most?

[emef]

been listening to sigue sigue sputnik - flaunt it tonight
it was guite funny to me cos i seem to have wholesale nicked their style in my tunes (particularly edit wise)
plus gary numan, depeche mode
and saint-saens - danse macabre ( first music that sent me daft for darkside)




so who's influence is most obvious in your own productions?

setting aside the fact that you're all original as fuck

[Loz]

I have no idea who influenced me the most. It really depends on what mood I'm in at the time, what I've listened to most recently, and what sort of style of music I'm trying to make.

My liveset was originally influenced by Black E's live shows, but it's come out really quite acidy, maybe influenced by DMX Krew, and although it sounds nothing like them, there is an influence of Drexciyan-style electro in there, too.


Radiohead are what got me into really wanting to make music, though, so I guess they'd be my biggest influences. Although I'm no where near talented enough to attempt to do what they can do.

[kams]

Jive Bunny
Photek
Aphex - boring but true

[mdk]

the bomb squad : particularly fear of a black planet
metallica
steve reich
and probably my biggest influence is hardy.

[marcel]

Landstrumm, probably followed by mouse on mars.

[isoprax]

The 50's and 60's rock my dad played all the time in the house. It accounts for my love of upfront, danceable stuff and an attention span that doesn't make room for boring or drawn out stuff. Give it to me raw and tracky, but interesting!

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Just myself, only the early stuff though.

[Spandex]

I've been racking my brain and I dunno really...

Perhaps it's "Being off my tits in the early 90s" or "Non-existent music that I imagine I heard one time". I'm almost always trying to recapture that feeling.. the sound of music when you're fucked. I keep trying to make it but it's imaginary so I can't.

MBV managed it though. Take enuff acid and Nirvana starts sounding like "Loveless" So MBV is maybe the biggest one for me.. outside techno n house.

[thembuzz]

whatever i try to do, i always end up with something else, so i'd have to say that my only real influence is my own incompetence

[Spandex]

Same here. But if that didn't happen it'd all be boring pastiche

[ivan]

in the old 8bit day. emax, laxity, skaven, purple motion, jerome t, r.hubbard, cooksey, m. gray... and so many more. .mod and .sid!!!! whooo!

techno vice, landstrumm. the old stuff!!! yes! damon wild - gear box, data sync, steve stoll, tim taylor, dj esp, birken, subhead, vogel, lidell and the whole 90´s acid and brigthonish scene.

now, old blues musicians.

but then there are artists like The kinks, blaze foley, van zandt whom out lived the most... there are many more. where to begin?

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by Spandex

Same here. But if that didn't happen it'd all be boring pastiche

really? all my tracks sound like vengaboys

[Spandex]

Pop classics. Every one.

[Loz]

Originally Posted by thembuzz

really? all my tracks sound like vengaboys

you should try to write something like the vengaboys


you'll probably come up with the next Windowlicker

[JE:5]

I think when I first heard Landstrumm's Brown By August and DBX stuff at my first free party in '95 it made me buy my first equipment so i'd say those two.

[M H]

I've been listening to the art of noise's first album a lot recently, first heard it when I was about 7, now I realise how much of an effect it had on me... and definitely on Subhead.....:

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by Loz

you should try to write something like the vengaboys


you'll probably come up with the next Windowlicker

i tried that and i got dj otzi

[soulcheck]

Michael Forshaw

then loong loong nothing

then Kenny G.

[joe pinapples]

Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound

[Loz]

filmed in Milton Keynes shopping centre, that.

so was this promo taken:




most exciting facts about Milton Keynes you'll ever hear. Apart from Spandex once went on a train from Milton Keynes, and forgot to change at Bedford, so had to ride the only train on the line back round the entire route twice more to get home.

[Spandex]

Yeah... it was a long straight line.. and I had to wait for one to come back along it.. and I think I didn't get on the right one for some reason (some railway employee lied to me I think). I think I was very near Bletchley Park but didn't even get to see it. A very sad day of feeling sorry for myself in stations.

[decadnids]

my old amstrad cpc464 loading - that was a massive influence on me.

[emef]

haha thats a good one
computer programs on tape still gotta be some of the most tearing sounds ever

this might be considered a bit of a cliche now, i've heard a few people say it
but i got hooked on clicky edits cos i had a fucked cd player that used to skip and chop about
so started trying to do the same things in my tracks
it never sounded quite as good as when it did it on the cd player

i'm not the biggest fan of aphex but the pure style of the way he used to put edits together on certain tracks was a joy and bewilderment to me

[decadnids]

Originally Posted by emef

this might be considered a bit of a cliche now, i've heard a few people say it
but i got hooked on clicky edits cos i had a fucked cd player that used to skip and chop about
so started trying to do the same things in my tracks

yup, I used burn tracks onto cd, and then scratch them up to try and get them to click and skip and record the results... pointless really as it sounded shit.

[Laszlo]

Jimi Hendrix & Spandex (he explained midi to me) - still don't understand it though - cheers matt ;(

[love_tempo]

hard question to answer. maybe arthur russell, for showing how things could be far out, instrumental, danceable and catchy all at the same time.

maybe theo parrish for djing style, learnin me disco and showing how you should just do your own thing production wise.

oh and I suppose the guitar music of Heitor Villa-Lobos which made me take up the guitar.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

After some consideration I think really the main influences for me are

C64 Music
Doctor Who/Radiophonic workshop
This short story (1909! 19 oh fucking 9!)

[Spandex]

Forgot about C64 music. Hubbard n Galway.

[emef]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

Doctor Who/Radiophonic workshop

good call
i reckon there's gotta be some dr who theme influence in there for a lot of us that make music

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

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